Marine and Coastal Sciences

The 2018 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement – often described as the ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment’ – has been awarded to Paul Falkowski and James J. McCarthy, for their decades of leadership in understanding – and communicating – the impacts of climate change. Paul Falkowski, one of the world’s greatest pioneers in the field […]

Mike Kennish, professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, served as the lead guest editor of the January special thematic issue of Estuaries and Coasts, considered the leading estuary and coastal journal in the world. The special issue, “The National Estuarine Research Reserve System: An Integrated Network of Research and Monitoring Sites Supporting […]

Deep dive into the 3D structures of proteins reveals key building blocks Rutgers scientists have found the “Legos of life” – four core chemical structures that can be stacked together to build the myriad proteins inside every organism – after smashing and dissecting nearly 10,000 proteins to understand their component parts. The four building blocks […]

Susan Elizabeth Ford, age 75, passed away on December 5, 2017 in Williamsburg, Va. A renowned researcher and mentor, Ford received her undergraduate degree in zoology from Rutgers Cook College in 1978 and a doctorate degree in zoology from Duke University in 1984. During her career, Ford held positions at Duke University; School of Veterinary […]

The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium (R3C) has awarded a combination of eleven mini-grants and internships to support research by Rutgers faculty, staff and post-doctoral researchers on Raritan River, basin and bay resource issues. This is the 2nd year of the program to support work by Rutgers affiliates in the Raritan Region. Projects and recipients include: […]

Floods that once occurred every 500 years on average could average every five years after 2030, even though hurricanes may steer further offshore As the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy nears, scientists Andra Garner and Benjamin Horton from the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Robert Kopp, director of Rutgers Energy Institute, have some […]

Four days before Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, scientists from the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences launched a data-collecting, submersible robot glider in front of the massive storm. The robot glider they used was one of a fleet that the Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RU COOL) is deploying in […]

Marine and Coastal Sciences professor Benjamin Horton and colleagues have found the key to thousands of years of Indian Ocean tsunami activity in a cave in Indonesia. After the devastating 2004 tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean, researchers—including Horton—asked themselves if a tsunami of this magnitude had ever happened before and, more important, would it […]

Edible Jersey’s High Summer Edition focuses on oysters, highlighting Rutgers role in three stories. SPECIAL REPORT: Oysters In this piece, Edible Jersey describes the oyster as Jersey’s mascot and a powerful environmental steward. It chronicles the rise, and fall, and rise of the Delaware Bay Oyster, aquaculture development, the problems the industry faces due […]

Diane Adams, assistant professor in Marine and Coastal Sciences and in the Institute for Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, passed away on June 22. She was in hospice and died peacefully in the presence of her family. While not well for several months, she continued to be active in her research and teaching until very recently. […]